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Man's Supreme Inheritance: Conscious Guidance and Control in Relation to Human Evolution in Civilization

F. Matthias Alexander

F. Matthias Alexander was an Australian actor, author and educator, who is best known as the inventor of Alexander Technique, a method for "unlearning" acquired habits of movement and posture that are harmful or suboptimal, and allowing natural, healthy patterns of body use to emerge in their place. Alexander Technique is now taught by specially trained instructors through in-person lessons around the world, and is particularly popular among musicians and other performance artists. In this 1918 book -- a combined and revised edition of his first two books on the subject -- Alexander explains the principles of his technique and the theory behind it. It includes an introduction by the American philosopher and educator John Dewey, who studied the technique with Alexander. The first part of the book expresses some beliefs about race and gender that were widely held at the time among the educated classes in the English-speaking world, but which are rejected by modern practitioners of the technique. - Summary by Kazbek